We’re running a blog post series on the “Seven Deadly Sins of Third-Party Cyber Risk Management;” here’s the fourth deadly sin, which is the failure to address information security in third-party contracts.

We’re running a blog post series on the “Seven Deadly Sins of Third-Party Cyber Risk Management;” here’s the second deadly sin, which is failing to make third-party risk management about business risk management.

The ‘seven deadly sins’ are a classification scheme established by the Roman Catholic church in the 15th century. It is these seven sins from which they believe all immorality is rooted — pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Similar to the religious seven deadly sins, we have enumerated the seven deadly sins of third-party cyber risk management. It is from these sins that programs fail to lift off the ground, die a slow death, or limit the value they provide to the organization. Let’s take a look.

RiskRecon has rolled out an update of the portfolio dashboard page to customers, which provides enhanced insights into their RiskRecon portfolios, built with active information widgets that facilitate viewing additional information and easy linking to vendor security profiles. The dashboard continues to be filterable based on customers’ portfolio organization.